Monday, April 10, 2017

In the US, Shopping malls are dying

"Travel is booming. Hotel occupancy is booming. Domestic airlines have flown more passengers each year since 2010, and last year U.S. airlines set a record, with 823 million passengers. The rise of restaurants is even more dramatic. Since 2005, sales at "food services and drinking places" have grown twice as fast as all other retail spending. In 2016, for the first time ever, Americans spent more money in restaurants and bars than at grocery stores."


Sunday, April 09, 2017

Hackers warn Trump


" In a lengthy open letter to Donald Trump, the Shadow Brokers explain that they've returned to protest the US missile strike against a Syrian airbase Thursday – an action that marked Trump's first significant move directly opposing the will of Russian president Vladimir Putin. And they warn the president that he will face consequences if he doesn't revert back to his former policy of leaving Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a Putin ally, alone.

The file contained a huge cache of specialized NSA malware, including dozens of backdoor programs and 10 exploits, two of them targeting previously unknown security holes in Cisco routers—a basic building block of the internet. The leak electrified the computer security world, and sent Cisco and other companies scrambling to fix the security holes and lock out the NSA."